Ex-cops recount 1979 interviews with guards

HOLLAND -- As the Janet Chandler murder trial continued, several former police detectives testified this afternoon about 1979 interviews with Wackenhut Security guards, including Arthur Paiva and James Nelson -- both now charged with her murder.

In those interviews, Paiva admitted to having a relationship with Chandler but said the two broke up about two weeks before her death in January 1979.

"He said there were problems with rumors amongst the guards over (this relationship)," former Holland police Detective James Fairbanks testified in Ottawa County Circuit Court.

James and Glenna Chandler, parents of the victim, left the courtroom as a former Michigan State Police trooper began to testify about investigating the freeway turnaround area where Chandler's body was dumped. A snowplow driver minutes earlier had discovered the nude body.